Linux on PDAs

 

Why Linux for PDAs?


 

Modern OS

Linux is a modern operating system with: protected memory, virtual memory, preemptive multitasking, multi-user capability.

Standards/Portability

Kernel and C library offer POSIX APIs. Standards for applications (bookmarks, addresses, todo lists, documents, ..).

Open Source Code

The source code of Linux is freely available under the GPL license. There are no restrictions to use it and improve it.

Scalability

Linux works from 286CPUs up as well as on other CPUs (MIPS, Crusoe, 68000, ....) up to mainframe computers and clusters.

Costs

Manufacturers save developement costs, users save license costs.
based on some notes from vhl-tools (http://vhl-tools.sourceforge.net/)